JOE L FRANK

Instruments: Manager
Date of Birth: April 15, 1900
Place of Birth: Mt. Rozell, Alabama
Date of Death:May 4, 1952

JL. Frank was a promoter and manager who used many innovations to launch the careers of some of the biggest names in country music.

He combined the idea of the ruggedness of the cowboy with music, resulting in the singing cowboy, establishing the careers of Gene Autry and Pee Wee King and the Golden West Cowboys.

He managed the radio careers of acts such as Amos and Andy, and Fibber McGee and Molly. Combining Radio broadcast with personal appearances, Frank developed acts such as Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb and Minnie Pearl.

As a songwriter, Frank wrote "Chapel on the Hill", "Sundown and Sorrow:, and "My Main Trail Is Yet To Come".

He has been inducted into both the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Frank became ill during a business trip to Chicago in 1952 and died at the peak of his career.